I am posting here at the request of Future Electronics as a prerequisite for getting support from Wandboard.

I purchased a Wandboard dual Rev C1 from Future. I have a Wandboard dual Rev A1 which I have been using for 9 months. I use the Wandboard A1 primarily to play music on a stereo in a bedroom. I bought the C1 to replace the Zotac Zbox which is currently doing the same job in my living room.

I installed the latest ubuntu image from Wandboard on an SD card (and added /usr/sbin/sshd which was missing from that image for some mysterious reason.) Since the wireless interface seemed flaky (e.g. would not restart on a soft reset) I built new bcmfmac modules from linux backports. That fixed the problems with the wireless. So then I compiled and installed my music software on the C1 and tested it. Everything worked fine when I used the line out jack. (I had hoped to be able to use my Fiio SP/DIF DAC, since the miswiring of the SP/DIF port had supposedly been corrected on Rev C1, but I was not able to get the DAC to sync to the Wandboard.)

At this point I moved the C1 to my living room and connected it to my stereo. I was able to listen to music for a few hours. Then, in the middle of an album, the sound stopped. I had not made any changes to software or hardware, I was just playing mp3's. Since that time I can not get any sound from the C1, except for a pop when the Wandboard boots and another pop when the ALSA driver is initialized. The alsamixer recognizes the sgtl5000 and appears normal. But there is no sound. Using aplay to play a .wav file also produces no sound. Everything else works normally. The computer boots and connects to my network. I can login by ssh. I have a unity desktop if I connect a monitor. But I have no sound.

I think my Rev C1 board came with a faulty sgtl5000 chip, which fried itself after a few hours of use, and needs to be replaced.

Have you tried:1. Cold reboot. Pull the plug, leave it out for 30s, and try again. Repeat a few times. (My guess is that you already have done this.)2. Try some other audio output. Plug in some headphones you know are working elsewhere, and try if you can hear anything3. Double check alsa settings etc. Maybe the audio output is muted, or the volume is set very low? Also check that you really are using the sgtl (ALSA card setting)

Also unplug any other I2C devices (like HDMI monitor, or stuff on the the external pin header) you may have attached.

Using alsamixer I set the volume to 100 on the channels Headphone, PCM, Mixer Channel and Main Channel. In fact, I matched all of the settings to what I am currently using on my Rev A1 board, which works. When I use aplay to play a .wav file, e.g. aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Left.wavI get no sound. The same command on my Rev A1 board produces a woman's voice saying "front left".

I tried connecting a PC audio system and a pair of headphones through the line in jack. Neither one produced any sound.

So, indeed, something is amiss in my Alsa setup. I have no idea how the ALSA configureation could become corrupted in the middle of playing an mp3, but apparently that is what happened. I also don't know exactly how it is misconfigured, but I can probably figure that out now that I know where to look.

A better solution would be to include a basic hardware diagnostic test with your image. The days when configuration problems are solved by reinstalling the entire OS should be behind us by now. Obviously the days when configurations spontaneously and unexplainably become corrupt are still with us.

FYI, the distributor said that the "semi-sleazy method" was required by Wandboard, not by them.

hi guyssomething similar happened to me when I was trying to output audio to the analog LineOut. using the latest Lollipop image provided on wandboarg.org, I managed to record some .3gpp files using MicIN. all of a sudden I got no audio output anymore. until now I couldn't resolve the problem.the solution you provided will work on pure linux systems, but the folder ".pulse" is not available since Android uses a different audio system (audioflinger).any ideas on how to solve it on Android?